劳伦斯·大卫：1963年出生在美国波士顿（马萨诸塞州）。1985年毕业于本宁顿学院，1987年在纽约大学获得研究生学位。既创作儿童图书，也为大人们写书。戴勒菲妮·杜朗：儿童绘本作家，插画家，出生在法国葡萄酒之乡——第戎，毕业于法国斯特拉斯堡装饰艺术学院。画风独特，画面细节丰富，已在欧洲和美国出版过多部作品。两位作者共同合作的绘本还有《好心的小女孩》。

《卡夫卡变虫记》的故事灵感来源于卡夫卡短片小说《变形记》。一天早上，小男孩卡夫卡一觉醒来，发现自己变成了一只棕紫色的超级大甲虫。但是没人注意到他变形了——他的父母、他的小妹妹、他的老师——除了他最好的朋友迈克尔，谁都没注意到。迈克尔想让卡夫卡变回小男孩，卡夫卡也很想变回去。可为什么他会变成甲虫呢？为什么大家好像都没发现呢？卡夫卡在寻找答案，也在找回自己……

Beetles squeak and beetles glow. Beetles stink, beetles sprint, beetles walk on water. With legs, antennae, horns, beautiful shells, knobs, and other oddities - what's not to like about beetles? The beetle world is vast: one out of every four living things on earth is a beetle. There are over 350,000 different species named so far and scientists suspect there may be as many as ...(展开全部)

Beetles squeak and beetles glow. Beetles stink, beetles sprint, beetles walk on water. With legs, antennae, horns, beautiful shells, knobs, and other oddities - what's not to like about beetles? The beetle world is vast: one out of every four living things on earth is a beetle. There are over 350,000 different species named so far and scientists suspect there may be as many as ...(展开全部)

Beetle in the Anthill (Russian: Жук в муравейнике) is a 1979 sci-fi novel by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky set in the Noon Universe. Beetle in the Anthill is the title of a theory explaining the Stepchildren phenomenon. Another example of such a title in Strugatskys' books is the Roadside Picnic, describing a possible origin of the "Zones".

The story of a boy named Almanzo Wilder . . . While Laura Ingalls grows up in a little house on the western prairie, Almanzo Wilder is living on a big farm in New York State. Almanzo and his brother and sisters work at their chores from dawn to supper most days-no matter what the weather. There is still time for fun, though, especially with the horses, which Almanzo loves mor...(展开全部)

The story of a boy named Almanzo Wilder . . . While Laura Ingalls grows up in a little house on the western prairie, Almanzo Wilder is living on a big farm in New York State. Almanzo and his brother and sisters work at their chores from dawn to supper most days-no matter what the weather. There is still time for fun, though, especially with the horses, which Almanzo loves mor...(展开全部)

特蕾西·雪佛兰 （Tracy Chevalier） 美国畅销书作家，1962年生于在美国华盛顿特区，成年后移居英国。对于改写《奥赛罗》的初衷，雪佛兰坦承主要是基于个人的亲身经历：她儿时就读于黑人学生为主的小学，成年后长期生活在英国，却因为自己的美国口音而被当作“局外人”。 “我认为《奥赛罗》的主题是关于局外人的，也是关于某一群体如何对待与他们相异的个体的。而操场是一个隐喻，它就像一片封闭的领地，里面发生的所有事情都会被放大。” 截至目前，雪佛兰共计出版了九部长篇小说和两部短篇小说集。1997年，她凭借《纯蓝》（Virgin Blue）斩获史密斯年度新人奖，第二部小说《戴珍珠耳环的少女》（Girl with a Pearl Earring）畅销38国，全球销量超过500万册，并被改编为同名电影，由斯嘉丽·约翰逊和科林·费斯主演。

‘A compact and intense read full of twists, turns and intrigue’ Daily Express The bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Last Runaway returns with a tale of jealousy, bullying and revenge. Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomat’s son Osei knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day – so he’s lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popu...(展开全部)

A hilarious, touching and extraordinary new fable from David Walliams, number one bestseller and fastest growing children's author in the country. Joe has a lot of reasons to be happy. About a billion of them, in fact. You see, Joe's rich. Really, really rich. Joe's got his own bowling alley, his own cinema, even his own butler who is also an orangutan. He's the wealthiest twel...(展开全部)